South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-09-30

msnt Of besrdiess boys, carpet bag
gers. and the scum OF the earth ..,o
adjudicate and pass upon" the elisi-
bili.y TO vote Of their oldes', wealth..
est. AM most honorable citizens; but
ttcy had 10 gria and bear it. Now.
our times come. Turn about is fair
play. LESS poor rule that won't work
both ways. Ttey laugh bes. Who
laugh last. Ex- Confedorates. don't
smile or indulge in any unseemly
mirtb wien you read this.
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The BIS O. does no. seem TO be
in such bad way after all. The
weekly circular issued Friday by Jno.
A. Hambleton & Co. Baltimore bank.
ere. gives table showing the stock
and the funded indsbte iness Of the
Baltimore ard Ohio Railroad .Compa-
ny and tho interest charges on the
same. Tue dividend on the b. and O.
stock is calculated at 6 per cent. and
on Washington Branch at 10 PEI cent.
The company owns 81 100000 of the
Washington Branch stock. Tha cap.
ital stock is s.. OOO.O 900 fret AMI seq
ond preferred stock. $l4,782. 566 CON-
mon stock and $3.50. 900 Washing.
tou Branch stock. The total bond
and stock debt is ss3, 3s0.72l, upon
which tue fixed interest aud dividend
charges as calculated, are S4,6aS 500
The net earnings for the fiscal yesr
ended September so, 1886, we're Sc.
8S6,694 7S. The company has in
dorsed and guaranteed the bombs of
other raiload companies to an am cunt
aggregating sl2.7l5.OO0, including
IS $4,000 C., w. and b. first Al per
cents, upon which interest Is earned.
Notwithstanding the large increase in
the bonded obligations VI the b. and
. Company, the earnings are quite
sufficient TO meet all Axe charges,
including the iu,ere 81 on the proposed
new issue OF stock ald bonds. and to
pay reasonable divid,pds on the stock
The inves' cations of thu syndicate
have been Satisfactory. and their re
port will show chat the company has
many good and available securities
which. together with the telegraph and
parlor and sleeping car Investments
furn ish assets worth many million
Of dollars. The dem and for B. & 0
stock continues strong at 1881 to l25.
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LIEUTENANT ZULINsKI, the inven-
tor ofthe pneumatic dynamite gun,
one day last week, in the presence of
Secretary Of the Navy Whitney and
a number of officers Of the army and
navy. demonstrated success 'ulIy the
possibility of employing dynamite in
shells for the destruction Of ships at
a distance ofa mile or more. An old
wooden schooner, the Sllliman, an-
chored a mile and a quarter from
Fort La Faycttc, near New York city
was by two shots from Zalinski's gun
reduced to a shattered mass of wreck,
age--in fact. utterly destroyed.
The experiment was instructive in
seve raj ways. 1t showed that the
pneumatic gun could deliver a mis-.
sile with accuracy, and that the
problem OF using large charges of ex-
plosive gelatine and dynamite with
safety to the users was approximate.
iy. and perhaps fully, solved by IA
linskfs invention. The gun en-
pioyed was an eight-inch tube OF
great longth. from which a shell con
tanning So pounds OF dynamite and
gc!atine was projected by condensed
air under a pressure OF 900 pounds
to the square inch. The government,
has dynamite cruiser undor con.
struction which Is to carry guns Of
lO3 in. calibro and throw 200.pound
shells at the rate Of 80 per hour. A
ehell from one Of these guns, II plant
ed With the precision attained last
week, could hardly fail to destroy the
largest and strong est Armor- clad a..
float.
The famous Bell Telephone suit,
brought by the u. s. government
against the American Bell Telephone
Company to cancel two patents grant
ed TO Bell relating to the at OF trans.
hitting speech by electricity on the
ground that they we're obtained by
fraud, was decided in Boston Tuesday
against the government.
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A roaring we'll has been discovered
near Harlem, CoIumbiq County, Ga.
about thirty miles from Augusta. A
nOiaa can ba diatinrtIv haard down